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Robert Whitman

Robert Whitman (Born 1935) is active/lives in New York.  Robert Whitman is known for Technology themed performance art, modernist painting, sculpture.

Robert Whitman (born 1935 in New York City) is an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making. Since the late 1960s he has worked with new technologies, and his most recent work incorporates cellphones.

Whitman studied literature at Rutgers University from 1953 to 1957 and art history at Columbia University in 1958.

He was a member of the group of visual artists - Allan Kaprow, Red Grooms, Jim Dine, and Claes Oldenburg - who in the early 1960s presented theater pieces on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. Whitman has presented more than 40 theater pieces in the United States and abroad, including American Moon, E.G. and Mouth at the Rueben Gallery. Night Time Sky was his contribution to the First New York Theater Rally in New York in 1965; Prune Flat was first presented at the Cinematheque in New York in 1965 and has been p   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6133 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Robert Whitman

   Robert Whitman  Born:  1935 - New York City
Known for:  Technology themed performance art, modernist painting, sculpture

Robert Whitman (born 1935 in New York City) is an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making. Since the late 1960s he has worked with new technologies, and his most recent work incorporates cellphones.

Whitman studied literature at Rutgers University from 1953 to 1957 and art history at Columbia University in 1958.

He was a member of the group of visual artists - Allan Kaprow, Red Grooms, Jim Dine, and Claes Oldenburg - who in the early 1960s presented theater pieces on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. Whitman has presented more than 40 theater pieces in the United States and abroad  ...  Displaying 750 of 6133 characters.

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